The future as a form of thought – dialogues across centuries and disciplines

30 artists have dedicated themselves to the aspects of temporality, sustainability and visions - the works can be discovered in the exhibition FUTURA - Measuring Time at the Kunsthalle Hamburg. At the centre is the stalactite machine by Bogomir Ecker (*1950): for a quarter of a century it has been continuously producing a stalactite in the middle of the Galerie der Gegenwart. On the occasion of the round anniversary of the work of art, Ecker was allowed to curate FUTURA together with Brigitte Kölle (Head of the Contemporary Art Collection). The exhibition explores the future as a form of thought and art as an aesthetic category – some of the artworks were even designed especially for the event.

The interdisciplinary and historical dialogue between the exhibits alternates between drawings by Caspar David Friedrich from 1826 to contemporary photography by Pierre Huyghe (*1962). Katinka Bock's (*1976) ceramic installation Trostpfützen meets Gustave Courbet's The Grotto of the Loue (1864), while geological meteorites join the expansive installation by artist Elena Greta Falcini (*1986). Parallel to the exhibition, the Kunsthalle, together with Tropfstein e. V., is organising a multifaceted programme of events entitled FUTURA. Future as a Form of Thought.